
A team of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch is scheduled to go to Jhenaidah today for recovering three mobile phones of ruling Awami League Jhenaidah district unit leader Qazi Kamal Ahmed Babu, who was arrested in connection with the murder of lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar.
‘We will go to Jhenaidah tomorrow [Wednesday] for recovering Babu’s three mobile phones. We hope to get evidence from those mobile phones,’ DB Wari Division senior assistant commissioner Mahfuzur Rahman, also the case investigation officer, told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·.
He said that Babu during primary interrogation claimed to have lost his phones.
‘During his confessional statement to the court under section 164, Babu claimed that he had thrown his phones into a pond in Jhenaidah,’ Mahfuzur added.
Meanwhile, Babu, relief and social welfare secretary for Jhenaidah district AL unit, was shifted to the district’s jail from Kashimpur Central Jail on Tuesday afternoon.Â
Confirming the matter to ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·, Jhenaidah district jailor Sheikh Md Mohiuddin Haider said that they had received Babu at about 3:45pm from Kashimpur Central Jail.
‘He has been taken to the jail. I came to know that his mobile phones would be recovered from Jhenaidah,’ the jailor added.
On June 6, the DMP DB detained Babu from Adarshapara in Jhenaidah town.
On June 9, the court put him on a seven-day remand in police custody as he was shown arrested in the Anar abduction case connected to his murder.
On June 11, detectives detained Jhenaidah AL district unit general secretary Saidul Karim Mintu from the capital’s Dhanmondi in connection with the case. He was sent to jail after completing three-day of his eight-day remand.
Before Babu’s confessional statement, Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan, his associate Tanvir Bhuiyan, and Celesty Rahman gave confessional statements in the court. They are currently in jail.
Lawmaker Anwarul’s daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin filed a case on May 22 with the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police, alleging that her father was abducted with the intent to murder.
Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar went to India for medical treatment on May 11 and went missing on May 14.
On May 22, Kolkata detectives confirmed that he was murdered.
Siam Hossain, who was brought back to India from Nepal, is now in the custody of the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department.
The CID West Bengal recovered the bones from a spot on the bank of a canal near Polerhat in North 24 Parganas around 15 kilometres away from the New Town apartment where Anar was reportedly murdered and his body was dismembered, according to Indian media reports.
On May 28, the Kolkata CID recovered four kilograms of flesh from a septic tank of Sanjeeva Gardens in Kolkata suspected to be of Anwar’s.